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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 6, 2002Pierce County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 6, 2002, 4:17 AM EST for Pierce County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 6, 2002, 4:17 AM EST (09:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2002, 8:45 AM EST
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pierce County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 6, 3:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

491 
WFUS52 KJAX 060917
TORJAX
GAC001-229-305-060945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
417 AM EST WED NOV 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN APPLING COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 AM EST

* AT 412 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PATTERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 AM EST...
  BRISTOL AND PATTERSON...
  SCREVEN...
  JESUP AND DOCTORTOWN...

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO.
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE DIRECTLY AT 904-741-4370 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3150 8232 3134 8223 3154 8162 3175 8173
$$

CARROLL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 10:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Coffee	6 hr
Nov 6, 3:51 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware	6 days
Nov 6, 4:17 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Pierce, Wayne	6 days
Nov 6, 4:45 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	6 days

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.